Woodhull opposes recent arrests This morning, federal and state law enforcement officials conducted a raid against Rentboy.com and arrested seven people associated with the website, charging them with prostitution and money laundering. In June, 2014, Woodhull made the following…
On October 8, 2014, ThinkProgress.com declared the end to the War on Porn. The censors had lost and erotic media would live on. One sign that the war had been lost was the fact that annual contributions to the well-known anti-erotica…
The recent hospitalizations and arrests at Wesleyan University, initiated by the indulgence in a club drug called Molly, is prompting a lot of self-examination on the campus, and I can imagine that much of that self-examination is at risk of…
Woodhull testified against Prostitution Free Zones. See our testimony here. On October 7, 2014, the District of Columbia Council voted on a bill to repeal the District’s“Prostitution Free Zones” law as well as the “Drug Free Zones” law that it…
In 2002, Judith Levine wrote a prize-winning critique of sex-related laws called Harmful To Minors (Thunders Mouth Press). It provides a very carefully researched, clearly written argument that the laws we make in the name of protecting kids often does more damage…
We are rather schizophrenic in our public policies related to kids in the US. From the sex laws documented by Judith Levine nearly 15 years ago in her classic book Harmful To Minors, to the mess we have made of…
We are categorically opposed to human trafficking. We strenuously oppose any measure that makes people more vulnerable to human trafficking. We also stand in opposition to measures that crush constitutionally protected civil liberties under the guise of combatting human trafficking…
It’s only 11 lines and 91 words, but most of them are bad. If you are looking for a clear, concise example of the wrong way to write about young people and prostitution, the story below is perfect. I’d have…
Adult film stars are reportedly having their bank accounts systematically closed by JP Morgan Chase bank, for no other reason than their connection with porn. According to industry publications and more directly, tweets from adult film performers, Chase has been…
Lets pause for a moment of Marxist musing. When I talk to my students about the difference between “work” and “jobs,” we discuss the way that all productive activity can be understood as work, but that a job is only that…